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Some time ago leading aerospace and defence contractor Beaufort Engineering Ltd, encountered a major inspection bottle-neck when producing batches of two similar, but highly complex, turbine rotor components. As a very experienced, five-axis machining facility, at Kirkby-in-Ashfield, near Nottingham, Beaufort had no real problem with cutting the parts.

However, the need to inspect dimensions and plot the relative blade form for each of the sixteen blades on each rotor tied up the manual measuring facilities and its personnel for hours. Today, faced with the same measuri

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